Now that we are enjoying a flowering of technological development, we need to realize more deeply that the quantum leap in that area calls for a matching quantum leap in our sense of purpose. Otherwise we would get what is tantamount to an overdose.

HOW PPP GIVES OUT FREE SERVICES: There is a rush of inquiries about “Pinoy Protection Package” or PPP, after we wrote a number of articles about it in this newspaper. So that readers will understand better how PPP works, I am reproducing here a material about it that is being circulated nationwide and in some Asian cities. Read on:

There is an email commentary now circulating about parallels and contrasts between two events in August five years apart, one in Beijing in 2005, the other in Manila in 2010. Here’s the emailed report:

It’s easy enough to heap abuse on the President now.

Time And again, the great cycle of life takes its course and normalcyof the very phenomenon that “for every beginning, there is always an ending”.

The Senate formally approved on Wednesday a resolution urging President Benigno S. Aquino III to immediately order suspension of the unusually large and apparent excessive allowances, bonuses, incentives and other perks of members of the boards of the government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financial institutions (GFIs).

DSWD Assistant Secretary and National Deputy Director for 4Ps Parisya Taradji was in Zamboanga del Norte last week to visit 4Ps beneficiaries and meet with the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) with regards to the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Thursday it is supporting the celebration of the National Peace Consciousness Month this September with a kick-off ceremony Friday at the Peace Bell Area in Quezon Memorial Circle, Quezon City.

Economic managers of President Benigno S. Aquino III agreed to suspend for two months the bonuses and compensations of officials of the Government Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCC’s) and Government Financial Institutions (GFI’s), according to Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on Friday.

The Philippine Airlines (PAL) suffered US$ 80 million in losses as initial impact of the August 23 Quirino Grandstand bloody hostage incident, lawyer Domingo Duerme, PAL vice president for Mindanao, said.

Business process outsourcing (BPO) has never had it so good in the Philippines.

It’s grossly exaggerated!

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will seek every available diplomatic channel to ensure a fair and just treatment for five Filipino nationals facing execution in China for drug-related offenses.

Senator Edgardo Angara stressed on Friday the need to improve the training of the country’s weather forecasters to minimize damages brought by strong typhoons and other weather disturbances.

Asia’s third-largest low-cost carrier, Cebu Pacific (CEB) maintains its significant lead over other airlines when it comes to the number of domestic passengers carried in the 1st half of 2010, as per Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) figures.